“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.”
“Man is not made for defeat.”
“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
“I’m tired of everybody. Please forgive me.”
“Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.”
“All thinking men are atheists.”
“Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel...”
“Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.”
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”
“The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.”
“Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.”
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
“There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.”
“For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.”
“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”
“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
“I am always in love.”
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
“You’re not a moron. You’re only a case of arrested development.”
“About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
“Good writing is good conversation, only more so.”
“I never knew of a Morning in Africa when I woke up and was not happy.”
“And you’ll always love me won’t you? Yes And the rain won’t make any difference? No.”
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.”
“But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.”
“Easy writing makes hard reading.”
“Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.”
“A man does not exist until he is drunk.”
“Strong in all the Broken Places.”
“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.”
“Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.”
“Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
“It’s silly not to hope. It’s a sin he thought.”
“Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.”
“Most people never listen.”
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”
“My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.”
“My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.”
“No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”
“Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.”
“I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I’ve lost 30 pounds.”
“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
“The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.”
“War is a crime. Ask the Infantry and ask the dead.”
“I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together.”
“Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.”
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.”
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